To
help others is to help ourselves. We should try to purify our
mind at all times, give our love and kindness unconditionally,
and not expect anything in return. This is the best way.

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We
work and contribute only because there is a need at that moment.
When there is a need for us to do, we do it. After we have done
it, that's all. There are no other purposes to it. Of course,
we should help those who need help. When others need help, we
just help. Helping is like not helping at all. In the Diamond
Sutra it is written: Give without giving is the true giving. When
we help others, it is like eating food or washing our hands. We
don't feel especially proud for washing our hands. That state
of mind is just like that. Whatever we do, we do it as if for
ourselves. It is very natural. If we don't practice spiritually,
no matter how much goodwill we have, we still can not do it well.

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The
more we work, the more we try to help other people, the more we
grow.

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And
whatever job we do we have to do it wholeheartedly. Moreover we
still have to help our fellow beings in whatever way we can, make
them happy, make them feel loved.

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When
you are working not for reward but only from love, then everything
will go very smoothly.

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We
have to help also with social work. Whatever we can do to help
lessen the suffering, that is the most noble work, which will
not only be recognized in this world, but also praised by heaven.

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When
a depressed person with a deep inferiority complex comes to seek
our help, we should help him. Help him to become a high-spirited
and self-confident person with an ideal; one who is no longer
disappointed in himself or wants to jump off a building. This
is our magical power; and this is "giving alms of fearlessness,"
just like the Quan Yin Bodhisattva.

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We
help others, because when we observe others in distress, it is
like we are in distress. This feeling should come genuinely from
the heart. When we are cold, we immediately get a blanket, a meditation
cloth or a hat to cover ourselves. When others are feeling cold,
we also feel it. Even when we are warm and cozy, we cannot get
to sleep if we think of the people suffering in the cold. First
thing in the morning, we will try to help them quickly. When I
help others, most of the time it is because I myself cannot sleep.
So, I am also helping myself. If I don't help them, I will feel
bad. To ease my distressful feeling, I have to help them, the
faster the better. When it is done quickly, I am happy too! This
is the natural way to help others.

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When
we are thinking of serving others, we will somehow forget about
ourselves.

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When
we do good deeds the results would definitely be good. Even if
the results were not good, we would be contented, would not feel
guilty, and would not lose our self-confidence or our self-respect.

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When
we serve the multitude, God also serves us. Such is the law on
which the universe functions.

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We
should do things without any purpose in mind. It applies to any
job. Unconditional devotion is the best.

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We
keep reminding ourselves what we have done for others, we will
be merely doing business transactions like the worldly merchants,
and not truly giving selflessly.

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Do
not always run around to take care of me. Take care of our guests,
take care of our brothers and sisters or whoever needs to be taken
care of. It is okay. Everyone likes to run around and take care
of me, but you don't realise that I am in all of you. For you
to take care of each other is like taking care of me. I only need
a little amount of attention. I don't need all of you taking care
of me, you will run over me! (laughter). You will overwhelm me
with love and attention, and other brothers stand around and nobody
takes care of them and it is me too, it is me who you left behind
or didn't take care of. I feel the feelings of the person. You
don't feel it, but I do. So if you don't take care of them, it
means that you bother me, because I will know it, and I will be
bothered.